Parts Stolen from a New Honda Parked off of West Avenue

A 2017 Honda Accord parked in a lot downtown was broken into and parts were stolen from it — including the trunk lid — while the owner, a 75-year-old woman, was visiting a spa.

Darien police gave this account of the incident:

After two hours in Lanphier Spa at 20 West Ave., the owner came out to her silver-colored Honda at 1:10 p.m. on Thursday, April 6 to find the lid of the trunk removed.

Looking at the car further, the woman, a Stamford resident, realized that the driver side door lock had been forced open and her steering wheel airbag was missing.

She immediately called police, who saw that the trunk lid had been removed from the assembly arms. The rear license plate was attached to the trunk lid and was also gone.

No other vehicles in the area had been disturbed, and thefts (of any type) from vehicles in that parking lot are extremely rare. (Police have said in the past that this is the usual situation in these cases: The thieves seem to be looking for particular cars to steal parts from.)

The estimated value of the cost of the stolen vehicle parts is $3000. Police are still investigating the incident.

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Darienites on three different streets in town reported entered or attempts to enter vehicles overnight from Friday to Saturday or from Saturday to Sunday. Police described what happened with these accounts:
Overnight, Friday to Saturday: Fairview Avenue
At 6:42 a.m., a Fairview Avenue resident told police he saw a man wearing a gray parka trying to open the doors of his car and Jeep.

Darienites on three different streets in town reported entered or attempts to enter vehicles overnight from Friday to Saturday or from Saturday to Sunday. Police described what happened with these accounts:
Overnight, Friday to Saturday: Fairview Avenue
At 6:42 a.m., a Fairview Avenue resident told police he saw a man wearing a gray parka trying to open the doors of his car and Jeep.

A 38-year-old woman parked her Honda CR-V at Noroton Heights Railroad Station on Sunday morning, and when she returned a few hours later, the car had been broken into and the airbag stolen from the steering wheel, Darien police were told. Police gave this further description of what happened:
The woman, a New Canaan resident, parked the blue CR-V on the eastbound side (north side) of the station at 8:50 a.m., and locked it.